A great read. Great to see the characters we have grown to love as well as the hoarde of new characters- among them the brilliantly realised Thirishar 'Shar' Th'Chane. Full of drama, intrigue, threats and humour, Avatar is a must for any ST fan.

A verry weel done book and a good start toi a virtual season 8 of DS9, plus it fleshes out some characters who only get development in the last couple of seasons i.e. Jake, Cassiday, Ezri and Kira. The plot is entrancing, and verry well thought out, it also shows how perception can colour interpritation with the Ohula text and how The bajorans interprit it. Only complaint is that the first book feels a little slow in building to book two, it would have been better to publish bothe stories as one novel instesad of seperating them.

It's not a bad book at all, although sometimes it feels like the story grows up too slow, and it has some pretty weird facts in it, like the Alfa Quadrant's side of the wormhole being protected by only one miserable starship whilst DS9 is under heavy repairs, the war with big fleet actions still hot in the memory, or the extreme skills of the Jem'Hadar, non-canon by what can be seen in the show.